Friday, December 3, 2010

Ai Weiwei


Since we are going to see Ai Wei Wei's work (on January 10 at the Tate), I figured this would be an interesting article to post from Art21 about Part 1 and Part 2

"The nature of the Chinese language, whose words take up only 1–2 characters on screen, mean that Chinese-language tweets can be as long as a paragraph. Thus, we opted for Tumblr, which preserves the real-time and social nature of Twitter while allowing greater flexibility in translation and contextualization. I worked with our anonymous designer to develop a two-column format ideally suited for translation, and I work to ensure the site’s operations are running smoothly while contributing my own translations and working with Jennifer to determine the overall direction of the site"




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